SoundTools.io Online Granular Synthesizer is a free software synth that lets you explore granular synthesis in your web brower.
Granular synthesis is a technique where audio gets sliced into tiny fragments (5–100 milliseconds) and then scattered, pitch-shifted, reversed, and layered back together to create completely new sounds.
It’s completely free, and lets you play and record directly from your browser. Everything runs on your machine, so nothing gets uploaded and no account is needed. You can record the output and download it as a WAV.
The Online Granular Synthesizer is available now as a free online synth.
Developer Gary White lets us know that he’s released his Behringer CZ-1 Editor, which is available as a free online service.
White notes, “The UI has also been designed to shed some light on how to program it, with panels being highlighted when accessible, and animations to convey what is being changed. Hopefully it should help somebody. Every control has it’s function listed, you just need to hover the mouse over it.”
The Editor is available now, is completely free and works through your web browser, just plug in your CZ-1 to your desktop computer or phone. White notes that it does not work with Safari, because of current limitations with Apple’s MIDI support.
Audio Damage has introduced Evil Otto, an OTT compressor plugin for iOS, Linux, macOS and Windows.
Here’s what they have to say about it:
OTT (over-the-top) compression has become one of the most recognizable sounds in modern music production. If you’ve listened to anything in the EDM, pop, or hip-hop worlds in the last decade, you’ve heard it — that hyper-present, larger-than-life quality where every detail of a sound is pushed forward and nothing hides in the background.
The technique itself is straightforward: take a multiband compressor, apply downward compression to tame the peaks in each band, and simultaneously apply upward compression to boost the quiet parts. Do this across three frequency bands and you get a sound that is dense, detailed, and aggressively “right there.”
Features:
Three-band upward + downward compression with adjustable depth and time.
Per-band threshold and level controls.
External sidechain input for ducking.
Sidechain listen mode for dialing in the duck.
Input and output gain with smooth bypass.
Resizable UI with two color schemes.
Evil Otto is available now as a free download for the desktop version, and is $2.99 for the iOS version.
